Nichols Applied
Management provides hands-on facilitation, advisory, and planning
services to organizations in the development of their strategic
and business plans. These services have been provided in support
of start-up ventures and organizational restructurings as well
as to established businesses, municipalities, educational institutions
and school boards, senior government departments, and community
and regional organizations. The firm also has delivered a number
of related presentations in the field of business planning and
performance measurement at conferences and seminars.

Examples of
representative assignments carried out in the strategic and business
planning field include:

Assisting school jurisdictions, post-secondary institutions,
and senior government education authorities in the development
of multi-year strategic plans;

The
formulation of a privatization plan for a major area of gaming
on behalf of a senior level of government;

Assisting
municipal and senior government departments in the development
of their business plans, including the definition of goals,
strategies, and actions and associated performance measures;

Assisting
governmental authorities in planning and implementing major
contracting-out initiatives;

Preparing
business plans and feasibility studies for proposed start-up
businesses and project expansions;

Developing
change management plans for the adoption of new organizational
and program/operational delivery approaches in public and private
sector organizations; and,

Conducting
background research and financial impact analyses to support
the development of strategic and business plans.

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Nichols Applied Management is involved extensively in the design and implementation of mail, in-person, and telephone surveys and focus groups as a support to the firm's market analysis, program evaluation, performance measurement, impact assessment and other activities.
The firm added the capability of computer-aided telephone interviewing with a new in-house 10-station CATI system.

Examples of using the model to compare different "runs" employing varied assumptions could reflect a comparison of alternative service levels, the impact of a major development, slower population growth, higher than expected capital costs, or changes in financing approaches.